Improvement in mosquito-screens



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Mosquito-Screens.

Patented March 24.1874.

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UNITED STATES PATENT CFFIOE.

JAMES P. MILLER, OF RIDGEVHILE, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN MOSQUITO-SCREENS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 148,894, dated March24, 1874; application filed January 24, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES P. MILLER, of Itidgeville, in the county ofIroquois and State of Illinois, have invented a new and ImprovedMosquito-Net Frame, of which the following is a specification:

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 represents a sectional elevationof a door or window frame with my mosquito-net attached thereto; andFig. 2 is a horizontal section of the same on the line 0 c, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The invention relates to a self-closing swinging bar or frame having anetting attached, and operated by a weight having a vdoublecordconnection with it at the top and bottom. The invention also includes apeculiar arrangement of cranked or bent pivot-rods with the bar to whichthe netting is attached, whereby the bar is supported and the nettingkept stretched without supplementary devices, as

. hereinafter described.

stretched over rods 1) to the opposite side of frame A, being tackedthereto in suitable manner. The netting 0 corresponds exactly to thesize of the door or window, so that it closes the opening thereof, andexcludes flies, mosqnitoes, and other annoying insects. The framerods clare also bent, at some distance from the staples a, into eyes 6, towhich cords f are attached. These cords f pass through staples orpulleys f of the frame A, and have the weight suspended from their ends,as shown in Fig. 1. The weight keeps the net-frame firmly on the door orwindow frame, while allowing, at the same time, the ready opening of thenet-frame, as required.

In this manner a very cheap, durable, and easilydetachable protectingdevice against mosquitoes is produced.

Having thus described myinvention, I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent- 1. The combination, with the mosquito-frame B O, ofthe cords F F and weight D,as shown and described, to operate asspecified.

2. The vertical bar (I, supporting and pivot rods 1), and the netting 0,attached to said bar and the door or window casing, as shown anddescribed.

JAMES PARKS MILLER. Witnesses:

Isaac BEYEA, WILLIAM P. GARDNER.

